Terms of Use and Privacy agreements
Terms of Use
By accessing BrahmaKumaris.Info (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, Brahma Kumaris Info"), you agree to be legally bound by the following terms and our published forum policies and Code of Ethics.
If you do not agree to be legally bound by all of the following terms and our published forum policies then please do not access and/or use BrahmaKumaris.Info. We may change these at any time and we’ll do our utmost in informing you, though it would be prudent to review this regularly yourself as your continued usage of BrahmaKumaris.Info after changes mean you agree to be legally bound by these terms and our published forum policies as they are updated and/or amended.
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BrahmaKumaris.Info operates to the copyleft, not copyright principle. We do not own the material presented here. While "copyright" only protects the exclusive rights of the originator by excluding all others under penalty, the "copyleft" protects the freedom of all others, to use works practically as if there were no copyright law at all. It licenses every person who receives a copy of this work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute the work as long as any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same copyleft licensing scheme.
You agree not to post any unsubstantiated allegations or other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where "http://www.brahmakumaris.info” is hosted or International Law. If you wish to raise controversial issues, please contact a site admin and provide sufficient supporting evidence to avoid any reasonable doubt of its truthfulness. We do not request full disclosure but in case of queries, please be cooperative. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned.
You agree that BrahmaKumaris.Info have the right to keep, remove, edit, move or close any topic, posts, blog posts or messages at any time should we see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered to being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, neither BrahmaKumaris.Info nor phpBB shall be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.
Privacy Policy
This policy explains in detail how “http://www.brahmakumaris.info” along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter “we”, “us”, “our”, “Brahma Kumaris Info”, “http://www.brahmakumaris.info”) and phpBB (hereinafter “they”, “them”, “their”, “phpBB software”, “www.phpbb.com”, “phpBB Group”, “phpBB Teams”) use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter “your information”).
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “http://www.brahmakumaris.info” will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “http://www.brahmakumaris.info” and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “http://www.brahmakumaris.info”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “http://www.brahmakumaris.info” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter “your e-mail”). Your information for your account at “http://www.brahmakumaris.info” is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us.
Any information beyond your user name, your password and your e-mail required by us during the registration process are at our digression what is mandatory and what is optional. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software.
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “http://www.brahmakumaris.info”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “http://www.brahmakumaris.info”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.